Advantages Over Desktop Applications | Server-Based Visualization
Faster deployment, automatic security, and more...
Style Intelligence is a Web-based server-side tool. It is made up of a collection of reusable server components which can be integrated into other applications and servers, or used "as is" to provide a complete BI solution.
Being server-based, Style Intelligence allows users to connect remotely to data sources, making it accessible to a broader user base.
Additionally, the application is equipped with automatic data security measures that will only show appropriate data based on the user's IT-defined permissions. By contrast, desktop applications typically provide a single-view of the data to be published.
Desktop tools are developed using a single dataset that uses scripting to pull multiple sources together. InetSoft is unique in this regard, allowing end-user data mashup though an intuitive drag-and-drop method of manipulating and combining data from disparate data sources.
Finally, server-based digital dashboard tools are targeted at a much broader range of users. Because the infrastructure only needs to be set up once, users can create mashups and dashboards through the aforementioned drag-and-drop. Desktop tools, on the other hand, are targeted at trained analysts that have the necessary scripting ability to build a dashboard from scratch.
Simply put, server-based tools like Style Intelligence empower end users and encourage self service.